ἀνθυπατεύω
ἢν μή τις ὥσπερ σφηκιὰν βλίττῃ με κἀρεθίζῃ → may no one squeeze me and tease me like a wasp | may no one smoke me and tease me like a wasp | but if anyone annoys me and rifles my nest, they'll find a wasp inside | still if you wake a wasps' nest then of wasps you must beware
English (LSJ)
A to be proconsul, Plu.Comp.Dem.Cic.3, Act.Ap.18.12, Hdn.7.5.2.
German (Pape)
[Seite 235] Proconsul sein, Plut. Demetr. et Cic. 3.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἀνθυπᾰτεύω: εἶμαι ἀνθύπατος, Πλουτ. Σύγκρ. Δημ. καὶ Κικέρ. 3, Ἡρωδιαν. 7. 5.
French (Bailly abrégé)
être proconsul.
Étymologie: ἀνθύπατος.
Spanish (DGE)
ser procónsul, IG 7.1866 (I d.C.), Plu.Comp.Dem.Cic.3, SEG 9.175 (Cirenaica II d.C.), Hdn.7.5.2, IG 22.3689 (III d.C.), Mart.Pol.21.
English (Strong)
from ἀνθύπατος; to act as proconsul: be the deputy.
English (Thayer)
(ἀντί for i. e. in lieu or stead of anyone, and ὑπατεύω to be ὕπατος, to be supreme, to be consul); to be proconsul: R G; cf. Buttmann, 169 (147)). (Plutarch, comp. Demosthenes c. Cicero,
c. 3; Herodian, 7,5, 2.)
